Emā Harneiss Memorial Page

19/06/2024

E te Kahurangi, kua huri te tau, kua heke tonu mai ngā roimata i tō rironga ki te pō. Big Nan, e moe.

Ngā mihi o te wā e te whānau!

We will be having our beloved “Big Nan” Emā Te Ra e tū ana Tonga-Awhikau Harneiss’s hura kōhatu:

Thursday 8th August in Pukekohe at Heights Park Cemetary with a light kai & refreshments afterwards(venue tbc).

If you are able to join us please rsvp in the comments below asap.

For catering purposes, it would be great to rsvp by the end of this week.

E rere noa ana te aroha.
Nā ngā tamariki, ngā mokopuna a Big Nan 💜

14/07/2023

To matou Matariki whetū ✨

Mānawatia Nan, haere pai atu ki nga rangi tuhaha 💜💜

18/06/2023

18/06/2023

E te iwi, kua panoni te hāora.

Karakia will go live at 2:30pm. Tēnā whakahonohono mai. ✨

Kua kotahi wiki, Big Nan 💜

In celebration of Big Nans life and commemorating one week, we will livestream at 2:30pm today for karakia. We will then make our way up to Nan before returning to Kauri Road for a cuppa tea.

Feel free to join us at the house but we ask that you please bring a plate of kai to share too.

Ā mātou aroha nui ki a koutou ✨

📸: photoshoot with Te Owai not long before Big Nans 80th birthday in 2022.

17/06/2023

Kua kotahi wiki, Big Nan 💜

In celebration of Big Nans life and commemorating one week, we will livestream at 2:30pm today for karakia. We will then make our way up to Nan before returning to Kauri Road for a cuppa tea.

Feel free to join us at the house but we ask that you please bring a plate of kai to share too.

Ā mātou aroha nui ki a koutou ✨

📸: photoshoot with Te Owai not long before Big Nans 80th birthday in 2022.

15/06/2023

Kei ngā rau huia o te motu, tēnā rā koutou katoa ✨

Kua tae mai te tini me te mano ki runga ki a Big Nan.

Quick Update to let all you know our service will be live streamed from around 1pm.

📸: At Waikato Hospital 24 July 2016 at the birth of one of her great grandchildren, Ōwairua Reureu.

13/06/2023

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UPDATE as of 8:30am Wednesday 14 June 2023.

Haramai roimata, haramai hupe,
haramai waiata, haramai aroha 💜

Ka mihi ki te marae, ki te hau kāinga kua tāwharautia mātou ki te korowai aroha ✨

We invite all whānau and friends to join us at Te Awamarahi Marae today.

🍃Pō poroporoāki🍃(live streamed)
The bell will call before 7pm. Join us in the wharenui for karakia and celebrating Big Nan’s life tonight with waiata and mihi.

Tomorrow, Mum’s final journey will go as follows.

🍃Final day🍃
Nan will be closed before sunrise.
7am: Karakia (live streamed).
8:30-10:30am: Ope will be able to continue to join us on the marae.
11am: Kaihākari
12:30pm: Service (live streamed)
2:30pm: Leave Te Awamarahi for Heights Park, Pukekohe
3pm: Ka hoki ki a Grandad. Big Nan will be returned to Grandad.

Kei ngā iwi o te motu, haere, hono mai ✨

📸: Big Nan at Graceland, Memphis, Tennesse, May 2022. Meeting her second favourite man, Elvis Presley.

13/06/2023

UPDATE as of 8:30am Wednesday 14 June 2023.

Haramai roimata, haramai hupe,
haramai waiata, haramai aroha 💜

Ka mihi ki te marae, ki te hau kāinga kua tāwharautia mātou ki te korowai aroha ✨

We invite all whānau and friends to join us at Te Awamarahi Marae today.

🍃Pō poroporoāki🍃(live streamed)
The bell will call before 7pm. Join us in the wharenui for karakia and celebrating Big Nan’s life tonight with waiata and mihi.

Tomorrow, Mum’s final journey will go as follows.

🍃Final day🍃
Nan will be closed before sunrise.
7am: Karakia (live streamed).
8:30-10:30am: Ope will be able to continue to join us on the marae.
11am: Kaihākari
12:30pm: Service (live streamed)
2:30pm: Leave Te Awamarahi for Heights Park, Pukekohe
3pm: Ka hoki ki a Grandad. Big Nan will be returned to Grandad.

Kei ngā iwi o te motu, haere, hono mai ✨

📸: Big Nan at Graceland, Memphis, Tennesse, May 2022. Meeting her second favourite man, Elvis Presley.

13/06/2023

Kua whakaeke a Big Nan me te whānau pani ki runga i Te Awamarihi.

Tēnā hono mai ki te karakia.

Big Nan has returned to Te Awamarahi Marae. Join us for karakia at 7pm.

12/06/2023

UPDATE as of 9am Tuesday 13th June 2023.

Atamārie ki a tātou ✨

Big Nan will be at 15 Kauri Road, Pukekohe until 3pm this afternoon. The whānau will then take Nan on a tipi haere around some key areas before arriving at Te Awamarahi Marae at 4pm.

- Kitchener Road (whānau homestead)
- 73 Nelson Street (Harniess homestead)
- Ward and Wellington street (visit to Shane and Glen ♥️)
- Brown Road (Harniess home before Nelson street)

Once again, the tikanga is smooth here on Kauri Road. Feel free to come in for snuggles. Or if you wish to karanga or mihi, tukuna mai ✨

📸: Mum and Dad. Nan and Granddad’s wedding 18 May 1963 💞

12/06/2023

Hei te ata tuku anō ai te karakia ā te 7am ✋🏾

We will be live streaming karakia in the morning at 7am. Feel free to join in ✨

Pōmarie ki a tātou.

📸: Big Nan living it up in Hawaii 2022 after celebrating the Graduation of her moko Pareunuora 🌺